Improvement in beer-coolers



J. s. PLAUTT.

Beer-Coqler.

Ptented Nov. 4, 1879.

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UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE,

JAMES '8. FLAUTT, OF CLABKSDALE, MISSISSIPP, ASSIGNOR TO ALMARIN C.RICHARDS AND THADDEUS M. WHITNEY, OF WASHINGTON, D. C.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEER-COLERS.

Specifiention forning part of Letters Patent No. 221.166, dated November4, 1879; application filed March 27, 187' 9.

To all whom w may cmcern;

Be it known that I, JAMES S. FLAUTT, of Clarksdale, in the county ofCoahona and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and usefulImprovement for Coolin g Beer, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention relates to cooling beer or any other liquid by passing thesame through a reservoir ineased in ice.

The invention consists in a reservoir lined with zine or other suitablematerial, which is placed in a case or vessel filled withiice, and in along faucet perforated with holes so that the bcer or other liquid inpassing from the keg or other vessel in which it may be placed isemptied into the reservoir and then drawn froni said reservoir again bymeans of a stopcock on the end of the faucet.

In the acconpanying lrawings, Figure l is an clevation of my device wishthe cooler in vertical section; Fig. 2l'ongit^dinnl 'section of thefaucet.

(J is a case or vesscl, which may be suitably lincd and packed, as withsheets ot' ZlllC, having a non-conductin g material between them, andprovided with a cover, L. Into this vessel I place the reservoir E,being a vessel of cylindrical or other suitable shape, and throughopenings in the case and openings in the end of the reservoir 1 insertthe faucet A.

The faucetvis provided with perforations d, which, When it is inposition, open into the reservoir R, and has extended through it,longitudinally, froni an y convenient point, asnall air pipe or vent, B,provided with suitable means for closing. the same. i

The faucet may be screw-threaded, and thus form tight joints Where itenters and' leaves the reservoir, or it may be suitably paeked at thesepoints, and it may also be provided With a strainer.

The case- C is to be filled with iceor other suitable refrigerant, andthe end of the faucet opposite to the draft end is inserted into the kegor vcsscl from which the liquid is to be drawn.

Air or other suitable fluid, such as carhonicacid gas, is admitted inquantities required through the small pipe B to the keg.

By ny device I may cool any liquid, but I consider my inventionparticularly applicable to the cooling of beer.

The operation is obvious. The liquid from the cask fiows by the faucet,through the perforation d in the same, into the reservoir lt, Where itis cooled without in any nanner injuring its quality, and may be drawnofi' as desired through the opposite end of the t'aucet.

'Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

In conbination With the cooler C and' the reservoir R, the faucet A,having perforations d, all substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

JAMES S. FLAUTT.

VVitnesses: s i

J AS. R. CHALMERS, EDW. E. QUIMBY.

